Time Lord Immemorial (audio story)

Time Lord Immemorial
Doctor:	Ninth Doctor
Featuring:	Liv Chenka, The Lumiat, Unbound Doctor
Main setting:	Hall of the Time Lord Immemorial
Key crew
Publisher:	Big Finish Productions
Writer:	Lisa McMullin
Director:	Helen Goldwyn
Producer:	David Richardson
Music:	Howard Carter
Sound:	Howard Carter
Cover by:	Lee Johnson
Release details
Number of parts:	1
Release number:	6
Release date:	5 October 2023
Format:	1 CD Download 6th of 8 stories
Production code:	BFPDW60OAFCD06
ISBN:	ISBN 978-1-80240-086-1 (physical) ISBN 978-1-80240-087-8 (digital)
Once and Future
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Next →	The Union

Time Lord Immemorial was the sixth story in the Once and Future audio series, produced by Big Finish Productions in celebration of the 60th Anniversary of Doctor Who.

It was written by Lisa McMullin and featured Christopher Eccleston as the Ninth Doctor, David Warner posthumously as the Unbound Doctor, Nicola Walker as Liv Chenka, Gina McKee as The Lumiat and Robert Powell as The Time Lord Immemorial.

Publisher's summary

The Time War. The Doctor has been injured and brought to a Time Lord field hospital. His body glows with energy, but this is no regeneration into a future form – instead, the Doctor’s past faces begin to appear as he flits haphazardly between incarnations…

Staggering to his TARDIS, the Doctor sets out to solve the mystery of his ‘degeneration’. Who has done this to him? How? And why? From the Earth to the stars, across an array of familiar times and places, he follows clues to retrace his steps, encountering old friends and enemies along the way. Tumbling through his lives, the Doctor must stop his degeneration before he loses himself completely...

Slipping between bodies, the Ninth Doctor finds his TARDIS caught between universes as the cosmos starts to break down. A Doctor from another reality arrives and they join forces with Liv Chenka and the Lumiat to find the cause. Someone has desecrated the mythical Hall of the Time Lord Immemorial, where the sands of time from the multiverse are held. And those sands are running out…

Plot

to be added

Cast

• The Doctor - Christopher Eccleston
• Alternate Universe Doctor - David Warner
• The Lumiat - Gina McKee
• The Time Lord Immemorial - Robert Powell
• Liv Chenka - Nicola Walker

Crew

• Senior Producer - John Ainsworth
• Cover Art - Lee Johnson
• Director - Helen Goldwyn
• Executive Producers - Jason Haigh-Ellery and Nicholas Briggs
• Music and Sound Design - Howard Carter
• Producer - David Richardson
• Script Editor - Matt Fitton
• Writer - Lisa McMullin

Worldbuilding

• The Unbound Doctor calls to Bernice Summerfield when he returns to his home universe.
• The Doctor asks Liv to say hello to Helen and Tania, though she doesn't know about Tania yet.
• The Doctor receives a message from Susan.

Notes

• Christopher Eccleston and Gina McKee had previously co-starred in Our Friends in the North.
• This was the final performance for David Warner as the Unbound Doctor before his death on 24 July 2022.

Continuity

• The Doctor is looking for "the Union". (AUDIO: The Martian Invasion of Planetoid 50)
• The Doctor mentions Missy's "experimental zap". (AUDIO: The Martian Invasion of Planetoid 50)
• Liv doesn't recognise the Ninth Doctor, because she hasn't met him yet. (AUDIO: Flatpack)
• Events from the Doctor and the Master's past and future lives are depicted in the Hall including the assassination in the Panopticon, (TV: The Deadly Assassin) Axos, (TV: The Claws of Axos) Androzani, (TV: The Caves of Androzani) the Time Controller, (AUDIO: Master of the Daleks) Utopia, (TV: Utopia) the Nethersphere, (TV: Dark Water) and the destruction of Gallifrey. (TV: Spyfall)
• The Lumiat mentions her creation. (AUDIO: The Lumiat)

External links

• Official Time Lord Immemorial page at bigfinish.com